Knitting Patterns
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- 5-Hour Baby Sweater
- Easy baby sweater, suitable even for beginning knitters. Also matching booties, bonnet, and hood.
- Baby Set (Sacque and Cap)
- Quick-knit sacque and cap for size 6 months to 1 year.
- Preemie Cap and Booties
- Easy cap and booties, suitable for hospital donations.
- Remsen Knitted Baby Blanket
- Square baby blanket in an easy pattern.
- Briggs and Little's Heavy Socks
- Diagonal Decrease Sock Heel #1
- How to create a heel with a diagonal decrease line like those that are commercially-made. This link gives two methods that do not require purling.
- Diagonal Decrease Sock Heel #2
- How to create a heel with a diagonal decrease line like those that are commercially-made. This method uses short rows.
- Don'ts for Sock Knitters
- Suggestions taken from Red Cross WW I patterns. A few are dated, but most still hold true.
- Hamer's Humdingers
- Heavy, fulled socks by Joan Hamer.
- Joan's Socks for Kids
- Single Strand version for ages 2-4.
- Magic Socks
- Three messages posted to the KnitList in 1996, describing how to knit a "sock within a sock" -- two socks knit simultaneously on double-pointed needles.
- Red Cross Wartime Socks
- Ribbers
- Easy socks with slip-stitch ribbing.
- Sock Sizes and Measurements Chart
- Measurements for critical areas of socks, for shoe sizes from infant's to men's.
- Toe Cover for Cast
- Two-Strand WoolEase Socks
- Why Knit Socks?
- How KnitListers answered that question!
- World War I Socks
- Boat Oar Mittens
- Quick-knit mittens using 3 strands of yarn and large (boat oar!) needles.
- Quick Mitts
- Easy mittens knit with two strands of yarn.
- Slip Stitch 2-Needle Mittens
- Susan's Mitts
- Easy mittens to fit teenager or small adult.
- Wristlets
- From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)
- Balaclava Helmet
- From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)
- Double Cap
- Double thickness - double warmth.
- Earwarmer (Machine Knit)
- Footies or Old-Fashioned Slippers
- Service Cap
- From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)
- Circular Scarf
- From Good Housekeeping's Forces' Knitting Book (WWII-era British leaflet)
- Owl Potholder
- Quick knit potholder, heavy cotton yarn.
- Dishcloth
- Basic knitted dishcloth, Sugar 'n Cream cotton yarn.